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Promethea Moth - Hodges#7764 (Callosamia promethea)
Photo#648684
Copyright © 2012
Aaron Carlson
Hyalophora cecropia or columbia -
Callosamia promethea
Starks, Oneida County, Wisconsin, USA
May 27, 2012
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Contributed by
Aaron Carlson
on 28 May, 2012 - 10:11pm
Last updated 29 May, 2012 - 5:51am
Moved
Moved from
ID Request
.
Definitely promethea.
…
Ryan St Laurent
, 29 May, 2012 - 5:51am
Callosamia
Looks like
Callosamia promethea
, but that may be the saturation in the photo, so it leaves me wondering
angulifera
as well.
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Jason D. Roberts
, 28 May, 2012 - 10:33pm
this is in northern WI, far f
this is in northern WI, far from any tuliptree, so i would think it couldn't be angulifera
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Aaron Carlson
, 28 May, 2012 - 11:08pm
Distribution
Well, the Tulip Tree and the moth (
angulifera
) are both found just south and just north (Ontario) of you, so perhaps both are present, but sparsely so, in WI.
Or this could in fact be a
promethea
.
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Jason D. Roberts
, 28 May, 2012 - 11:28pm
I would think it has to prome
I would think it has to promethea. Unless this is an angulifera that migrated a few hundred miles outside of its range. There are no tuliptrees growing naturally in WI, although I know you can find one here and there in far southern WI, grown as an ornamental. But those would still be 150-200 miles south of where I saw this individual. I did lighten the image up, and enhance the color a little, because it was at night and the original photo was fairly shadowy.
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Aaron Carlson
, 29 May, 2012 - 12:23am
yes
i went back and forth alot of times too.
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Edna Woodward
, 28 May, 2012 - 11:06pm